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Assistant Professor of English David Hibler
UNL English professor runninq
in 'un-campaign ' for county post
By Scott Svoboda
If plans work out for David Hibler, assistant
professor of English at UNL, students may be
calling him "commissioner" instead cf
"professor" next fall.
Hibler, who filed for the Lancaster County
Board as a Democratic candidate from the Third
District, said his main reason for running is to
promote city-county merger.
"I'm not a politician and I'm not a lawyer,
and with due respect for both, I think that
politicians and lawyers are generally wedded to
the interpretations of law, that, is, to examine
the way things are," Hibler said.
"I'd like to talk about the way things might
be, and I'd like to do "it in a nonorisense,
common sense, horse sense fashion.
"I've been told that that kind of approach to
politics is revolutionary. I can't believe it At
least, I hope it's not so," hs said.
Citing examples of successful combined
city-county governments around the country,"
Hibler said he envisions a total merger of
city-county government in Lincoln and
Lancaster County. Hibler said that, if elected,
he would set up a joint board to control all city
and county services. The board would be set up
on a one man, one vote principle to assure
equal representation of city and county
residents in choosing district representatives.
"Merging city-county governments will both
eliminate duplicated services, thereby
conserving tax dollars and allowing the city and
county to provide new serives which may be
lacking," he said.
Those new services might include the
elimination of the office of county
commissioner and City Council positions.
Hibler contended the major obstacle to
consolidation efforts in the past "has been
those who have a vested interest in the office
(which might be abolished or consolidated)."
"If this (merger) means I eventually legislate
myself out of a job, I think that's just fine," he
said.
To add sincerity to his "un-campaign,"
Hibler said that, if elected, he would put an
increasing percentage of the commissioner's
$10,000 annual salary into a fund to implement
city -county consolidation. His present plans call
. for a salary cut of $5,000 by the fourth and
final year of his term.
Hibler said a second issue concerning him is
the continued preservation of Wilderness Park
west of Lincoln.
Present plans call for the West Lincoln
' Bypass (U.S. Highway 77) both to intersect the
parkland to run directly adjacent to it for a
number of miles. 1
The Department of Roads plans to exchange
lands with the city and county to build the
proposed bypass.
"I feel the construction of this road will
thoroughly destroy the nature of the park," he
said. "I would do everything in office to keep
the county from cooperating with the State
Roads Dept. in this venture."
The highway, according to Hibler, could be
built three miles west of the park.
He will face H. Bruce Hamilton, 31, of
Lincoln and Henry Gerdes, 71, in the
Democratic primary election May 14.
Summer
reading
courses
offered
Those lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer tend to become
boring, hot and monotonous by mid-July. For a weary
'vacationer, a summer reading course may be the necessary
prescription to relieve summer doldrums.
Registration for 1974 summer read'ng courses will begin
April 22 at Nebraska Hall 511.
The Extension Division will offer 29 reading courses in
architecture, art, classics, economics, English, home
economics, history, journalism, horticulture, physics,
psychology, sociology and pharacodynamics and
toxicology.
Edor Ellingson, coordinator of evening classes for the
Extension Division, advises students to attend April
meetings to learn class requirements.
He said requirements are set by individual teachers. Each
instructor decides when students will take exams or how
many books they will read.
AueHumy inOis meeting: !: the on'y way a student can
find out his obligations, he said. The dates for the meetings
are ,;;ted In tie summer reading course schedule.
Ellingson added that students must have written
approval from their adviser or dean when registering. No
more than two summer reading courses may be taken in
one semester, he said,
Tuition for these courses are $18 per credit hour for
Nebraska residents and $43.25 for nonresidents, Ellingson
said. No additional fees are collected.
Eilingson said an English summer reading course was
first offered in 1967 by Robert Hough, professor of
English, through regular registration procedures.
The next year the Extension Division took responsibility
for these classes, offering two courses.
He said 1971 was the most popular year for the summer
courses. The Extension Diision offered 49 courses and 863
students registered, Ellingson said. However, not all of these
868 finished their course, he said,
"Somaltffics students so home and find their working
hours are too long so they withdraw from the class," he
explained.
Since 1971 the number of summer reading courses has
decreased, both in student registration and course
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